Ron Ruggless
Southwest Bureau Chief

Ron Ruggless covers the states of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
He joined Nation's Restaurant News in 1992 after working 10 years in various roles at the Dallas Times Herald newspaper, including restaurant critic, assistant business editor, food editor and lifestyle editor. Before Dallas, he worked at the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer.
He also edited the Zagat Dining Guide for the Dallas-Fort Worth area for several years, and his work has appeared in Food & Wine and Self magazines.
Ron lives in Dallas.

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  • When MUFSO rotates its annual gathering to Orlando, Fla., it provides a good opportunity to find out what restaurant companies might be testing in the burgeoning trail-run market.

     

    I hear Wendy’s, since at least August, has been testing its new Natural Cut Sea-Salt Fries in some Orlando units along with a few in Albuquerque, N.M., and Raleigh, N.C.

     

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